star Warsrelationship with robots It’s always been weird. they filming He turned on Gradient from revolutionary to lower class server, to deadly enemies and Straight allies. But no robot has felt more true to its heroic spirit star Wars from Hera SyndullaVery special A little weird, Chopper.
don’t get me wrong, star WarsThe wider media world has always had automated devices Lean toward puck mode Instead of the comically hardened foil seen in the Likes C-3PO. R2-D2 of course started it all, and that was even before he was flying jet missiles in the prequels and setting his fellow droids on fire. Knights of the Old Republic You brought us loveAble to petrify, break flesh, HK-47, and Marvel’s star Wars The comics gave us the role of the dark Dr. Aphra on R2, 3PO on Triple-Zero, and BT, a cheery assassin. But there’s just something about Chopper’s quick-tempered personality Ir rebelsfour seasons who raises his voice above the noise to be one of the star Wars‘ Most Perfect agents for chaos.
Maybe it’s just that Chopper is a random idiot. His “friends” are on board ghost (Save for Herahe never knows where to go also Far out there) and their enemies in the Empire are always equal targets for him to be an ally. The only level of arbitration in Chopperment when you decide to be a little bullshit – which it is 100% of the time – it weighs Whether he was friendly enough with someone to play a prank on them, or whether he was going to kill them outright. There is no bot in star Wars With the body count on screen as Chop, electrocuted, charged, blasted and blasted his way through the Imperial forces in a way that makes even Saw Gerrera think he may have gone a bit too far.
Maybe Chopper also does his damn thing on top of it all—sure, sure. There are times when he gets frozen out of a system or becomes incapacitated, but he’s also the one in ghost The crew that fixes those problems to save the day, and still has time on top of that to run jokes, and talk Shit, and yeah, sometimes ice ice a stormtrooper or two. He is a professional who takes everything “seriously” Whether it’s to accomplish a mission or clown on his allies. This is the energy that makes Chopper so convincing in Hot Chaos – it never feels like he’s doing things randomly or so randomly that you don’t kNow what you will get with it. Chopper knows exactly what he’s doing (being a dick), and will tell you exactly in his gruff voice and the sound of him rolling a giggle away from it.
And it’s an energy that I really hope we see Keep in Ahsoka. when star Wars Bringing a character from animation into live action, there’s always a leveling of some of their energies and exaggerations that are just part of the process of translating something from one medium to another. But even if it’s an acceptable part of the process, you’re still missing out on something. Trying to do this to Chopper is foolishr—needs that comic silliness, he can’t sound like Chopper and pop like Chopper. must be Annoying as hell. He must kill a few remnants of the Empire just because he figured out a funny way to do it. Chopper can, and should, get away with killing the way no one around him canwithout star Wars Ask questions of their own morally that are perhaps a little more appropriate to the sentiments of a political sensationalist Andor than they will be in something like Ahsoka. He has no time for the moral thingReese, he’s busy being a little robot.
like Ahsoka Willing to handle the difficult project of presenting these things rebels characters for live-action, and inTo a time when they grew apart from the heroes we met in animation all those years ago, Chopper is arguably the person they need the most. Let chaos reign!
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